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It was funny seeing a post asking about night photos, because after spending several evenings trying to get a good night photo of a castle on a hill in Greece, I was nearly going to use that as the challenge this week.
But we were down in Clare (south west Ireland) for the weekend, and as the main purpose of our trip was to gather sloes for sloe gin, I decided to go with berries as the theme. I hope this will be accessible to everyone - and if there are no wild berries, things like strawberries, blueberries, raspberries count. Even a blueberry muffin could count as Berried treasure .
While I didn't think that the hedgerows were nearly as glowing red as they were almost exactly three years ago, we did very well with the sloes and picked over 11lb. We should have called a halt ten minutes earlier - I was just changing lenses for a wide-angle shot as we came down the hill when the rain started and soaked us. Thank goodness for an all-weather camera bag .

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My photos are sloes (blackthorn), hawthorn and something too high up to identify . I forgot to take one of the blackberries at the end of the garden till after the light had started to fade tonight, so here's hoping for another sunny day tomorrow.

Great! I just got a new camera the other day and today was the first day I got to play (I mean 'work') with it. I was sitting on the back porch just snapping away at anything and lo and behold you ask for berries! I was about to delete this one cuz I didn't know what I would use it for.

Ha, I know what you mean about the spatter. Our neighbours have a mahonia tree, and between the after-effects of the birds and the fact that we can't help treading on some on the ground, the patio gets to be a bit of a mess when it's berry season on that tree! I like the contrast between the fence and the berries - glad you didn't delete it. What's the new camera, Jill?

Hope you find something, Amber. Cranberries? Oh my, that's triggered the thought that I should take a photo of the bottom drawer of my freezer - I always stock up on cranberries when we can get them fresh.

What a great challenge Sabrina. I was taking a photo of wild berries yesterday, but I used my Canon Rebel (which I have hardly used since I got it in the spring, because my point and shoot fits in my pocket and is so handy) and I still haven't uploaded the software to my computer. I'll try to get it posted this week.
Sabrina, I love your photos.....are the blue berries also sloe? I am not familiar with that berry, as we don't seem to have it here. I'm so glad this is an international site, as I get to learn lots!
PJill, I love your shot, love the fence in the foreground and the contrasting red berries.

Thanks girls. I am loving my new camera. It's the Canon T2i. Can't show it off to hubby until my other one (plus a few other things) sells on e-bay. It should then come close to balancing out!
About the berries in the bottom drawer of the refig......I'm waiting until she does and 'Green and fuzzy' challenge!!! I always forget mine are in there till it's too late! (But, I get lots of penicillin free! :0)

The blue berries in the third picture are sloes, but the red ones I didn't know at all. They're not rowan/ash, they were glossy and shiny like red-currants. In fact, there's a close-up of them in the last post on my blog.

Blackberries at the end of the garden, and a bottle of sloe gin. Already you can see the rich red colour coming out of the berries . They are incredibly tannic, I don't know any use for them other than sloe gin (or vodka).

Awesome photos Sabrina! I'm not a drinker, but that drink looks really tasty! I just took one photo of the ornamental crab apples on the tree right by my patio. The tree should be cut down as it has lots of fungus, but every spring it blooms so beautifully, I just can't do it!

Crab apples - yum yum, I love crab-apple jelly. They almost look like little tiny pomegranates, don't they!
What's in a sloe gin fizz, so that I can try one come Christmas when the gin is ready to drink? Someone else mentioned it too, and I've never heard of them before.

It's been so many years since I've had one that I really don't remember, plus I've never made one. Besides the sloe gin, it seems to me there was some grenadine in it and some kind of alcohol. Although if I had too many I would get tipsy but never drunk. When made right, they are soooo good, at least I think so.

I hope you ladies don't mind but I thought I would jump in and do some photo challenges w/ you. Most of my past photos have been my sons but they are both grown and I've been sad that my camera has been sitting. I saw your challenge & was very excited to get out and take some picts once again

I found these berries in our backyard. I'm not really sure what they are? LOL!

Lela, we don't mind, as a matter of fact, we welcome you wholeheartedly. The more people who join these challenges, the better!
Those berries look like elderberries to me.......they make exellent pies!

Welcome - and have fun using that camera. I find the challenges can - well, really challenge me sometimes - but that's good. And they open your eyes to look at the world around you in a fresh way.
I thought those looked quite like elderberries too.

These pictures are of the berries on the holly bushes in my front yard. I took them tonight with the Christmas lights on the bushes lite and using a tripod. The first one is with flash and the second is without flash. These two are the best and I'm still kindof disappointed in them but here they are anyway. TFL